Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -4

Support Score: 4

No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 0

SMILING FAMILIES

Providing support and friendship to families with a member affected by serious/terminal illness or disability,through activities,group sessions,financial support and wish granting. Specialising is Christmas visits to families unable to travel to Lapland or a local grotto due to their health issue,by bringing a mobile grotto to their homes.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income	Spending	Surplus/ Deficit	Volun- teers
01/01/23	£68,989	£61,500	£7,489	5
01/01/22	£34,300	£32,000	£2,300	3
01/01/21	£44,686	£32,936	£11,750	2
01/01/20	£19,158	£16,880	£2,278	5

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 5 years

www.smilingfamiliescharity.co.uk

smile@smilingfamilies.co.uk

01675442761

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

General Charitable Purposes

GiG Classification

Other specialist outpatient services

How it operates

Makes Grants to Individuals
Other charitable activities

Where it operates

Birmingham City, Coventry City, Solihull,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities
The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

The Clothworkers Foundation	£8,000
Sport England	£6,850
True Colours Trust	£5,000
Co-Operative Group	£2,362

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Smiling Families Charity
£8,000	01/07/2022	purchase a vehicle for a charity supporting people with disabilties in the West Midlands
True Colours Trust - Toy library for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions
£5,000	21/12/2021	Towards a toy library for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£6,850	14/12/2021	Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on ....more Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Multi Sports project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Smiling Families Charity
£2,362	23/10/2021	We are working on building a workshop for online group sessions and putting boxes of activities together for those shielding at home.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

MARK LOVELAND Appointed: 2021

OWEN MARTIN-BEADES Appointed: 2019

PAUL MARTIN-BEADES Appointed: 2016

KERRY MARTIN-BEADES (Chair) Appointed: 2016

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 12/06/2019, number: 1183860

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

4 Peace Court
Hampton-in-Arden
SOLIHULL
B92 0AW

Objectives

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF THOSE AFFECTED BY SERIOUS / TERMINAL ILLNESS THROUGH ACTIVITIES, DAYS OUT, SHORT BREAKS, RESPITE AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT AND FRIENDSHIP.

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